Chinatown, New York
Lauriston Avery
Outer Ones
DuttonDutton presents Outer Ones, a solo exhibition of recent sculptures, wall constructions, and drawings by Lauriston Avery. Formed from lo-fi utilitarian materials commonly sourced from hardware stores and interspersed with found ingredients ranging from faux fur to dust, Avery's works rely on the subtlety of white, muted hues, texture, light and shadow to express ghostly visages that are at once matter of fact and ethereal. Tightly compressed passages interwoven with structural and rhythmic line interplay over scarred psychic fields where super-sensory, celestial-like figures manifest in material substance and recede into abstraction. For Avery, this practice can be interpreted as conjuring. Alternating between feverishly building and impulsively excavating, he champions intuition as an interface with the metaphysical. His obsessive process and transmutation of material on the picture plane and in space summons that which is hidden within the tangible. Shimmering between the fantastical and the objective, Avery draws upon his attraction to the mystical and esoteric, where the laws governing what is visible are influenced by what is not. Lauriston Avery (b. 1968, Norwich, CT), lives and works in New York, having studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, he received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1990.